Tiesto tour to take over Home Depot Center

With Labor Day fast approaching, there isn't the usual slew of new shows about to go on sale -- although there are more to announce than most holiday weekends offer, starting with a big one: Tiësto at Home Depot Center.

The Dutch DJ, among the biggest names in dance music this past decade, has had a busy year already, having put out a new studio album (Kiss from the Past, issued in June under his alias Allure) as well as a fresh mix disc, Club Life: Volume One Las Vegas, which dropped in April. He's supporting the latter with a College Invasion Tour -- thus his stop at the soccer stadium near Cal State Dominguez Hills on Oct. 8.

Porter Robinson will open. Tickets are on sale now, priced at $28 for students and $43 for everyone else. (Note: In addition to their tickets, students will be required to show proper ID at the gate.)

You say you're longtime Death From Above 1979 fan but don't want to brave Saturday's FYF Fest in downtown Los Angeles to see 'em? Good news: the Toronto dance-punk duo has added a last-minute show this Sunday, Sept. 4, at the Music Box in Hollywood. Tickets, $22.50, go on sale Wednesday, Aug. 31, at noon.

On the other hand, here's some bummer news related to the former Fonda Theatre: the Vaccines and Kaiser Chiefs, among the better bands out of Britain lately, have canceled their coming tours, including Music Box stops on Sept. 13 and 27, respectively. Refunds are available at point of purchase.

The Vaccines had to pull out because frontman Justin Young requires still more surgery on his ailing throat -- his third such operation this year. Kaiser Chiefs, meanwhile, have scrubbed stateside plans because their U.S. label has closed, causing their fourth album, The Future Is Medieval, to be delayed until early 2012. They anticipate touring here at that time.

Speaking of Brits, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, the new project from the former Oasis songwriter, will issue its self-titled debut on Oct. 17 -- and a month later the group will make its first Southern California appearance, Nov. 17 at UCLA's Royce Hall. In addition to material from the new album, Gallagher has told the U.K. press that he will perform Oasis material on the tour. Tickets, $40-$80, go on sale Sept. 9.

Over at L.A.'s El Rey Theatre: Big Head Todd and the Monsters will head up a roster of blues greats under the banner Big Head Blues Club on Oct. 20, with guest spots from Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Cedric Burnside and Hazel Miller. Tickets, $26 in advance, $28 day of show, go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m.

Also at the venue: Architecture in Helsinki, with Dom and the Sandwitches, Nov. 2, $20 ... Dam-Funk & Master Blazter, with INC. and DJ sets from Peanut Butter Wolf and Egyptian Lover, Nov. 3, $22 ... and a co-headlining gig from Parachute and Kate Voegele, with Kevin Hammond opening, Nov. 5, $17-$19. Those shows are on sale now. (Voegele also plays Nov. 4 at the Yost Theater in Santa Ana.)

Missed Sublime with Rome earlier this month at Verizon in Irvine? Then maybe a night with tribute band 40 Oz to Freedom will be the next best thing. The group plays Nov. 23 at City National Grove of Anaheim, $17.50 in advance, $20 day of show, on sale Friday at noon. Also at the theater: Insane Clown Posse, Oct. 7, $32.50 in advance, $35 day of show, on sale Wednesday at noon.

The Felice Brothers have added a performance at Costa Mesa's Detroit Bar on Oct. 29, with Gill Landry of Old Crow Medicine Show opening. Tickets are $15.

The Roots, Jimmy Fallon's favorite ensemble, have a new bassist (Mark Kelley just replaced Owen Biddle) and a fresh studio album, Undun, hopefully due later this year. In preparation of that, the group will play Sept. 17 at House of Blues Sunset Strip, $40, on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m.

Also at the club: Mac Miller's first show, Nov. 6, sold out so fast that a second night, Nov. 8, has been added. Casey Veggies still opens, but instead of the People Under the Stairs in the second slot, it will be Pac Div. Tickets, $20, are on sale now.

Meanwhile, new at House of Blues Anaheim: the WILDest Show on the Planet, Sept. 30, $12.50, on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

Swedish rockers the Sounds are headed back to Southern California during another leg of touring behind their fourth album, March's Something to Die For. The group plays Nov. 15 at the Glass House in Pomona, Nov. 16 at the Wiltern and Nov. 17 at Soma in San Diego. Tickets for the first of those gigs, $21.50, go on sale Sept. 9. Expect the other two shows to become available then as well. Natalia Kills and Limousines will open all dates.

Also new at the Glass House: Flamin' Groovies, Oct. 13, $15-$20, on sale now ... and All That Remains, Oct. 14, $20, on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

The Devil Wears Prada have their biggest L.A. show yet planned for Nov. 20 at Club Nokia, with Whitechapel, Enter Shikari and For Today opening. Tickets -- $20 in advance, $23 day of show, $25 VIP -- are on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

Joe Jonas has Jay Sean opening for him Sept. 20 at the Wiltern -- but at the Fox Theater in Pomona on Sept. 21, it will be JoJo jumping in to bolster the bill. Tickets -- $25 in advance, $28 day of show, $30 for reserved loge seating -- are on sale now.

And Jersey punk band the Bouncing Souls have four nights lined up at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, Nov. 9-12, with different acts opening each night, including Youth Brigade, U.S. Bombs and Kevin Seconds. Tickets, $18, go on sale Friday at 1 p.m. via Ticketfly.

Also coming to the club: the re-grouped Jayhawks, with Mark Olson back in the fold, Oct. 4, $25, on sale Wednesday at noon. Piers Faccini will open. The Jayhawks' first album in eight years, Mockingbird Time, arrives Sept. 20.

Photo, from the Foreshore Music Festival last November in Australia, by Cole Bennetts, Getty Images.

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